unintelligible questions from pkgdb -F [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

[Jay Moore]

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 05:47 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> > Shared object "libintl.so.5" not found
>
> This is a FAQ.
>
> The gettext port was updated, and the ABI version number on it's
> libintl.so shlib was incremented to libintl.so.6, but you've still got
> installed programs that are linked against the now removed
> libintl.so.5
>
> And the ritually intoned response is -- all together now --
>
>     # portupgrade -fr gettext
>
> which will cause a large number of your ports to be recompiled, but
> restore your system to full operation.

I did this a couple of days ago... perhaps it was "undone".

At any rate, thank you again for your help; I'll post the results to this 
thread when it's completed (the process began at 10:25 PM CDST).

Best Rgds,
Jay